About

About Forensics Index

A small editorial desk that compares crypto forensics, blockchain investigation and crypto compliance providers serving the United Arab Emirates — and publishes the reasoning behind every placement.

Why this site exists

Search for a crypto forensics provider from the UAE and you get two kinds of result: global vendor marketing that says nothing about which regulator your business answers to, and a dense layer of “recovery” operators promising to get your money back for a percentage. Neither helps a CISO, a CFO or a founder build a shortlist after an incident.

This site does the boring part instead: who actually has people in the region, who produces a report you can take to a regulator or a court, who sells software rather than casework, and which of the Emirates' several regulators each of those things intersects with.

What we publish

  • A ranked comparison of ten providers, rebuilt whenever the underlying facts change.
  • Explainers on how investigations actually run, what deliverables to expect, and which crypto crime types are realistically traceable.
  • A regulator-by-regulator guide to UAE virtual-asset supervision, linking to each regulator's own source.
  • A plainly-written test for identifying recovery scams, written without naming individual operators.

The desk

Nadia Sharaf — editor

Research & editorial lead

Nadia leads the desk's research and writes most of what appears here. Their background is in financial-crime and technology reporting, and their working rule for this site is simple: if a claim cannot be traced to a primary source — a regulator, a court record, a company's own filing — it either gets attributed to whoever made it, or it does not run.

Contributions from external specialists are labelled where they appear. The desk is accountable for everything published, including anything an outside contributor got wrong.

How we are funded

Self-funded, with no advertising, sponsorships, affiliate links or paid placements. No company in the ranking pays us, and none has editorial review over its entry. If that ever changes, the disclosure goes into the editorial policy before any arrangement begins.

Corrections and contact

We would rather hear that we got something wrong than leave it standing. Corrections policy is in the editorial policy; the fastest route is to write to the editors. Providers who want to be considered for the ranking can submit a company, which is assessed on the same five criteria as everything already listed.